I'm not really sure what it is that
XGIMI thinks that they're doing here. On
the one hand, I definitely admire the
hustle. Who wouldn't want a better
projector for less money? But on the
other hand, at the rate they're going,
they're going to be making the best
projector in the world for $5. Just a
couple months ago, we looked at their
Horizon 20 Max, which I joked would make
rich people angry because of how much
more they spent on their fancy
projectors. And now, here we are with a
sponsored video on their Titan Noir Max,
which looks even better. At an early
bird price of just 3,000 US dollars, the
top spec unit in this lineup has it all.
5,000 lm of real-world movie watching
brightness, up to a 6,000 to 1
real-world native contrast ratio. That's
actually at 2,000 lm, so that would be
very suitable for a light-controlled
room and a great HDR experience. HDR 10
Plus and Dolby Vision. It's also IMAX
Enhanced. We're even getting the same
lens shift feature that I raved about
last time. That gives us the ability to
move the image up, down, left, and right
without any keystone or distortion. And
[music] even better this time, we're
getting a dual iris for super fine
control over contrast. It actually looks
better, too. Like, dang. XGIMI's
learning. The lens setup allows you to
switch instantly between a 16 by 9
aspect ratio and a Cinemascope aspect
ratio. And I guess I haven't even
mentioned yet, it'll do 4K 60 Hz or up
to 240 Hz 1080p if you're more into the
gaming side of things. You can expect a
little bit of rainbow effect because it
is a triple chip laser projector, but
they claim that they have some reduction
built in, so I'll be interested to see
how that works out a little bit later.
As for IO, we've got three HDMIs in,
including support for eARC, a couple
USBs, one of which is running at 3.0
speeds, a gigabit LAN port. They made a
point of highlighting that, and that is
important if you happen to use
Sorry, excuse me. Uh your
for your legitimate Sorry. Uh Blu-rays
that you've definitely ripped, for
instance. Optical audio, as well as
really DC power. Huh. And a 3.5 mm jack.
Woah, that's a lot of cooling on the
bottom for something that's powered by a
barrel jack. Look at that. I guess
they're aiming to make it really quiet.
I do see one 80 mm fan in there, though.
Power that up in a second. First, I want
to take a look at what else is in the
box. Normally, I don't care that much
about packaging. I mean, you're just
going to throw it away, but like
that's pretty cool. Really clean remote.
Good job. No Netflix button. Instead,
[music] you just get programmable
shortcut buttons, so you decide if you
want a Netflix button. XGIMI is leveling
up so big time, dude. [music] So, I
mean, I even said this in the last
video. They've gone from like little
brother projector brand to like
oh. Oh, damn. Like, wow. Okay. Backlit
remote. You love to see it. And not much
else. Not that I really
need anything else. I get a big chunky
power brick. 360
W.
You know, when we started calling these
power bricks, I don't think the
intention was for them ever to be
actually like something you could build
a domicile out of, but we got there.
Good Good job, everyone. Enough about
that. Let's fire it up. Now, we can just
plug in our NVIDIA Shield. Actually, no.
Let's not do that just yet, because one
of the big highlights for XGIMI on this
one is that they're not using Android
anymore. They are still using the
Android Open Source Project AOSP, but
they've made some customizations to it
that they say allows them to give
customers more control of just, you
know, side loading any kinds of apps
they want onto it, as well as better
optimization for the software itself.
So, it's a bold move, Cotton. Let's see
how it works out for them. Okay, let's
start with image correction. Boop boop
boop boop boop. That was painless. We
can make some fine adjustments with the
little screw-style feet. Okay, that was
about
3 minutes, and we are like
pretty darn close. Perfect? [music]
No, but unless you want to spend a very
long time or you're a professional,
you're always going to be doing a little
bit of keystone. Oh, right, right.
Laser. So, when it detects someone in
front of it, it turns off. For those
wondering, by the way, does it have to
be this close to the screen? The answer
is no. It totally supports mounting it
up high, or if you wanted to mount it
behind your projector screen. We
actually have it at maximum zoom right
now. Man, there's so much like adaptive
stuff. Automatic keystone, automatic
wall color adaptation, automatic focus,
like everything. I'll try out dynamic
iris. I don't know if I'm going to like
that, but I mean, hey, that's one of the
key features, so let's give it a shot. I
don't need to adapt to ambient light.
We've got full light control in this
room. Picture mode. Filmmaker mode.
Thank you. I do notice a little bit of
rainbow effect, especially as I'm moving
around in a white-on-gray menu. We'll
have to see how it looks in content,
though. Oh, the anti-rainbow effect
thing wasn't on. Oh, dude, that like is
immediately better. Why don't they have
that on by default? What's the downside?
What? It's way better. Can you guys see
that? Maybe there's like a terrible
downside, but I would turn it on so far.
All right, home. Here we go. Wait.
Oh.
I guess there's just like no home
screen. It's not a smart device. So,
they're running AOSP just for like the
operating system of it, but
no extra clunky stuff. Okay, so we will
need our NVIDIA Shield. Huh, that's
super cool.
All right, HDMI 1.
And boop. Time to kick off the lights
and see how she looks. Wow.
Not bad.
It is pretty incredible how much image
you can get out of a tabletop projector
these days. To be clear, the resolution
and the brightness and even for that
matter, the overall picture quality
might not be like an enormous leap over
what's been available in this type of
form factor before. But like I said last
time around, the inclusion of lens
shift, not to mention now this like
[music] super responsive granular menu,
makes it
actually usable. Okay, I do want to see
a piece of content I haven't watched
this since it came out. So, I do want to
see a piece of content that I have a
little bit more familiarity with one
that really really pops in HDR.
It doesn't have the poppiest HDR I've
ever seen
even on a projector. Screen size
uh I think more like 120.
Oh, interesting.
So, they have a brightness slider
elsewhere in the menu, but separately
[snorts]
they have this screen size adjuster
that as you can see will boost the
brightness, but actually doesn't seem to
be screwing with color too much. Little
bit yes, definitely. It's It's [music]
definitely juicing it a bit, but I would
say that if you like a more vibrant
image
boosting this a couple tens of inches
over what your screen size actually is
>> [music]
>> is going to yield an image that you will
like a lot more even than a vivid mode.
That's That's cool. Screen gain.
So, I can play around with how much gain
my screen has as well. This is terrific.
XGIMI
sponsored video or not, got some
feedback. This should not be hidden in
the Dolby Vision settings in the picture
mode. Please,
>> [music]
>> no. Wow, now that looks great. See, I
was sitting here going like, "Yeah, it
doesn't look that much better blah blah
blah blah blah blah." cuz I'm I'm not
going to tell you guys something I don't
believe whether it's sponsored or not,
but like now damn that looks awesome. It
just needed that little bit more pop.
Now, you're still not going to get that
kind of crazy, you know, specular
highlight that you might get on
something like a you know, a mini LED TV
or an old head or something like that.
But, you're never going to get that
projector look. That's sort of uh
cinematic almost softness. I don't want
to call it a softness, right? It's a 4K
display and it's it's quite sharp, but
it does look a little bit different and
you'll never get that on a TV. So, it
comes down to whether you want that more
cinema look or whether you want
really bright TV that can do, you know,
pinpoints of light. This like solved it
for me. I'm so glad we found that. You
know, I was worried that the dynamic
iris would be a huge problem in a scene
like this where we're kind of going
between near total darkness to like you
know, flaring [snorts] lights in the
sky. But, I was not noticing the iris
transitions. That's um
pretty smooth. I did notice a little bit
of noise in like sort of very dark
sections that it was not um handling
perfectly, but
I it's the kind of thing that if you're
not like a nerd who's looking for it, I
don't think most people would ever
notice. I guess I should turn the
speakers on. Normally, I would never
ever in a thousand years recommend using
the speakers on a device like this,
whether you paid, you know, the $3,000
early bird price or the $6,000 like full
retail price.
Get speakers. Like it deserves it. Um
but we might as well turn them on.
You're in trouble and you need my tree.
Yes. Yes, we do. Yeah, the speakers are
usable, but what I said before stands.
Yeah, now that I've got it dialed in,
it's uh quite solid. Was part of the
setup wizard? Did I miss that part where
it like asked me how big my screen was
and stuff? No. Okay, that's something
I'd like to see XGIMI improve as well
then is make sure that that's part of
the initial setup wizard. Other than
that, man, all the things that you need
are in the menu and it's pretty easy to
figure out other than that screen inch
thing. If you guys want to check this
thing out, it's going to be linked in
the video description. Obviously,
there's an early access price and then
there'll be a higher retail price down
the road. Or, you know, hey, down the
road though, the way XGIMI's going there
might be an even better projector. These
guys have just been killing it lately.
Thanks to XGIMI for sending this over
and sponsoring this video, and thanks to
you for watching. Subscribe [music] for
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